Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects.

The Free Software projects in question: Tor, Let's Encrypt, and F-Droid
- Let’s Encrypt
  God damn they literally just want to watch everything burn.
  
  Cut off .gov domains
- I did not knew that Tor was getting funded by the american state. Thats giving me some spooky vibes.
  
  It was invented by the US Navy.
  
  One theory is that Tor was opened to the public by the United States Naval Research Laboratory only to create a crowd of users for their agents to hide in. You need a large enough anonymity set for these sorts of technologies to work.
  
  More exactly by Defense and secret services
- F me
- Well, at least the one he used for thruth is safe (mastodon IIRC?)

Wait you guys were getting paid to work on open source?

Elections have consequences. I am no longer on speaking terms w/ trump voters.
- I'm no longer on speaking terms with any voters
  
  I'm no longer on speaking terms

- the enemy is both weak and strong
  
  The appropriate sequence of events would be:
  Trump starts tariffs > People switch to FOSS > Trump cuts funding to FOSS
  This really isn't double-speak and, if anything, clearly shows the hostility of the admin. They are just incompetent, short-sighted, and overall an enemy of the people.

the guy is literally a political front for techbros, it's not like he would do something else.
- Tech bros are only interested in getting the results from open source. They want the free software from their slaves, they aren't interested in paying anything.
  Tech companies, for a while, added a bit to open source as it was in their own self interest, but they still shut out everything that wasn't them, they still make the internet in the horrible stonewalled garden that it is today. No account? Half the internet isn't accessible to you anymore
  Fuck all the big tech and social media companies
  
  Tech bros are only interested in getting the results from open source
  That's why we need the GNU AGPLv3
- Those mf build their empires on the back of open source.

Well it looks lime most of us are going to have to step up our donations foe the next few years
- You will never approach the amount they receive from government funding. That is the point.
  
  We're going to have to try or potentially lose the project

This is it... This is the last straw!!! I was ok with the destruction of free trade, I was ok with the genocide funding, I was ok with the bastardisation of the administrative branch, and I was absolutely okay with the racism!!! But this, THIS??? ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE!!! As a MAGA supporter, I cannot stand for this any longer! You should be dismantling the minorities, not my website!!!
/s

As far as Let's Encrypt goes, the easy way to solve that is self-signed SSL certificates and Tofu. Just make it stupid obvious if an SSL certificate changes on a site that you go to. Like, turn your browser into a giant red screen that says that the security of the website has changed and may be broken obvious. Maybe you could have search engines also index SSL certificates so you could see if Google and Bing and DuckDuckGo and whoever else all say that this website has the same SSL certificate that it has had for X amount of time and if the search engines start showing different results you get suspicious.
Edit: Using self-signed certificates and tofu fits better with the decentralized ethos of the original web anyway since you're not relying on some third-party authority to tell you what's safe and what's not.
- i don't think this is a good idea. govs could just set up a big reverse proxy for lots of sites to serve them with their own certs, and you wouldn't know
  
  Seems like no change from right now, because currently the certificate authorities are centralized entities, which could be pressured by governments to add their own certificates.
- How about a Blockchain or Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) out of SSL certs 🤔
  I think that would finally be a use case for that tech, lol
  
  A blockchain to verify ssl cert keys and changes may work. Though idk how consensus would be secured.
- Never heard of tofu before (the software). What is it?
  I had heard about DANE and how that would help in scaling back the need for big CAs but I could never grasp how one would do that. Do you know about it? I'm looking for someone to explain it to me.
  
  Tofu stands for Trust on First Use. So basically, you would get an SSL certificate from the website the very first time you connected to it, instead of trusting a certificate authority. Then, if the SSL certificate changed, you would then be warned that the certificate had changed and would have to decide whether to trust the new certificate or not trust the new certificate. That's why I said perhaps search engines could index certificates and tell you how long the certificate has been active and you could check several engines quickly to determine whether each engine has the same certificate indexed for the same website and if they did not then you would know something might be up.

Delta Chat was one of the FOSS projects affected: https://chaos.social/@delta/114211300446944585

Make America great again

Trump needs that money for his big boy parade.

This is terrible news, anyone know of alternatives to let's encrypt?
- they have more sponsors and won't go broke because of this
- HTTP works pretty well, if you don't mind various governments spying on the traffic.
  
  http://longv3onionaddress.onion/

Well, tbh. If its my last time being president, I would also burn everything to show how the country sucks an is irrepairable.

The solution to this is simple. A change to the MIT license to bar .gov projects to use the open source projects.
- Why would making government more proprietary help?
- These are FOSS projects, not open source. They'd no longer be FOSS and that would be bad. Freedom 0 is important.
  
  Its possible to add free for all except US govt and that does not stop it from being free for the rest of the world.